Millepora boschmai | |
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Conservation status
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Critically endangered, possibly extinct (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hydrozoa |
Order: | Anthoathecata |
Family: | Milleporidae |
Genus: | Millepora |
Species: | M. boschmai
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Binomial name | |
Millepora boschmai De Weerdt and Glynn 1991
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Millepora boschmai is a critically endangered species of fire coral. It was previously catalogued in two protected areas in Panama, the Coiba National Park and the Golfo de Chiriquí National Park.[1]
This species was typically found in upper, forereef slopes to deep sand and rubble slopes but they were most abundant at the reef base and deeper outer slopes.[2]